Overview:

This update aims to address the feedback following the patches to the HUD update last week. One of the major points was text legibility. In large part because the softer shadows could make it appear blurry. The shadowing has been revised, and much of the UI has been adjusted to only use them where necessary, for example on colored text and against colorful backdrops where the contrast is needed. Otherwise menus have been reworked to contrast with the text without shadows, and colored text usage has been reduced in favor of other indicators like disabling buttons. Performance was another big concern, so there have been a lot of optimizations to the UIs that were causing hitches. As an example opening a storage locker with hundreds of items in IMGUI could spawn all of the UIs in a single frame because there was no overhead, whereas with uGUI there is a lot of setup required - to mitigate this there are a certain number of item UIs created per frame now, and all of the components needed (e.g. images, text, buttons) are recycled between usage (pooled) to reduce the setup time - this extends to all the UIs in the game.

Holiday Festivities:

danaby2 released an update to Elver with decorations, new quests, items, and more! Click here to read the update notes. Throughout the winter holidays each level is sporting some seasonal decorations. In particular PEI is temporarily covered in snow. Gifts containing high-tier weaponry can be found under christmas trees on official maps, and the NPCs have donned their santa hats.

Changelog:

Added:

Per-storage horizontal inventory scrollbar.
Light theme only color preference for rarity backdrops.
Option for custom text shadow color.
Accepted a few new skins from the curated workshop.

Changed:

Revised text coloring and contrast throughout UI.
Improved scaling of inventory grid sprites.
Optimized creating and destroying basic UI elements by pooling them.
Optimized initialization of UI components before reparenting them.
Improved performance opening large storage by time-slicing the item UI creation.
Improved nearby inventory performance by time-slicing the refresh.
Text chat entry field uses color preference rather than admin/gold colors.
Loading screen bar uses foreground color preference rather than difficulty color.

Fixed:

Hide menus off-screen for a single frame when they are enabled to hide uGUI activation artifacts.
Second line of Chinese text in chat being truncated.
Right-clicking outside item popup box now closes the popup.
Several straggling hotkeys triggering while typing in text fields.
Plugin UIs visible while finishing loading.
Pooled UI list using cached viewport height causing a hitch after big data change.
Exception in UI when picking up destroyed items.
Hitch after death caused by skills menu refresh.
Exception updating item icon after item was destroyed.
Potential negative explosion damage multiplier.
Right-click highlight for buttons.
Removing entries from spawn tables editor.
Vertical offset of drowning status icon.
Buildable attachment to train carriages.
Pressing escape to cancel pending chat message.
Swapping items of different slot types within grid.

[ 2020-12-11 16:56:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Unturned is a sandbox game in the emerging multiplayer apocalypse survival genre. Rather than focusing on being an MMO it provides players with easy systems to sit down and survive the zombie infestation with their friends. Over the course of a typical adventure, groups will have a blast fortifying locations, scavenging for supplies, trying to live off the land and negotiating with other people. The game is being developed entirely with the community in focus, and tons of features are based entirely on feedback:

Fortification:
Players can build massive forts out of structural building blocks, or build onto smaller buildings in the world with barricades. It is also possible to create traps and intricate electronic systems. More options for building are constantly being added based on what the community requests.

Survival:
It is entirely possible to live off the wilderness by harvesting resources, fishing, growing crops and hunting animals down. What sort of survival stuff is added is entirely decided by the community.

Explore:
The game goes where the community wants it to. The initial release map is set on the lovely Prince Edward Island, but over the next few months many more locations will arrive for players to explore depending on what the community wants to see. Currently the island has plenty of interesting locations to discover and loot.

Bandits:
Players can choose to enter player versus player servers and battle other players to steal their gear. Banditry is highly supported with plenty of weapons and sneaky devices.

Heroes:
Players can join player versus environment servers to team up with other people, and easily create clans to play with their pals.

Roomscale VR Support:

Unturned's level editor now supports the Vive! You can build the visuals of your maps using motion controllers with modes that provide the same functionality as the desktop editor, along with some special abilities like throwing objects. For non-visuals elements of the level such as data entry, spawn management or navigation baking the desktop editor is still required.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.04+
Processor: 3 GHzMemory: 8 GB RAMStorage: 4 GB available space
Memory: 8 GB RAMStorage: 4 GB available space
Storage: 4 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 20.04+
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Memory: 16 GB RAMNetwork: Broadband Internet connectionStorage: 6 GB available space
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